Reimagine Western Australia

Oct 26

Money Dreaming: “Everyone is a Banker”

In Noongar Country in Western Australia, the Whadjuk word for money is the same as the word for rock: Boya. Only with the arrival of Europeans did the word for an externalised monetary system come about (connected to rocks that contained gold).

In Indigenous Australian culture, people are assigned particular totems or dreamings – not arbitrarily, but out of keen spiritual insight and guidance. To have a dreaming is to have a responsibility for that dreaming – to care for it. One is expected to fully know it – to become it. Read more

Oct 17

Gift Culture – Holly Story

Our next Gift Culture recipient is WA visual artist Holly Story. Holly works in a number of mediums – including printmaking, embroidery, installation, video and sculpture – working with local, natural materials out of a finely-turned sensitivity to the natural world and its forces.

I experience Holly’s work as a real “Speaking of the Bush” – a real “Speaking of Country” – that enables audiences/viewers to experience this same speaking for themselves. In so doing she helps open a connection to all that lives in WA’s natural environment – connections out of which creative forces of social renewal can also flow. Read more

Sep 18

Gift Culutre – Noongar Language

Kaya! Noonook moorditj?

Our latest Gift Culture recipient is Sharon Gregory for her work teaching Noongar language. Sharon is an experienced Noongar language teacher, and has published Noongar-English dictionaries through Batchelor Press.

Beginner’s lessons are currently being held at Tuart Place, 24 High St, Fremantle every Saturday morning from 9am. New students are welcome, and each lesson is $20. Sharon has said she will put the $50 gift towards buying new teaching resources and materials for the class. Read more

Aug 30

Gift Culture – Social innovation in Western Australia (SiiWA)

Our next Gift Culture recipient is Brodie McCulloch from Social innovation in Western Australia (SiiWA). Amongst other activities, SiiWA runs a co-working, collaboration and innovation space called ‘SpaceCubed’ on St George’s Tce, right in the heart of Perth. SpaceCubed is Space3: Space to the power of 3. It enables the coming together of creative and socially-minded individuals from all realms of social life – civil society, government, business. It offers working desks, meeting rooms, as well as space for seminars, workshops and other events. Read more